Today I have some exciting news to share – I’ve been nominated for the Liebster Blogging Award! Thank you very much to Jen from This Happy House for nominating me. Now that I’ve been blogging for exactly one and half months, I want to also thank all of you my readers. I still get that little thrill of happiness when I check my site statistics and see how many people visit my blog each week.

A couple of days ago, around lunch time, I was standing on a street in Midtown Manhattan waiting to meet up with a friend. Midtown during the week is a crowded area and around noon the streets swell with office workers and tourists. As people walked past I heard snippets of conversations and began to notice a common theme.